{"product_id":"the-politics-of-incremental-progressivism-isbn-9781119647874","title":"The Politics of Incremental Progressivism","description":"THE POLITICS OF \u003cb\u003eINCREMENTAL PROGRESSIVISM\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘Ungovernable neoliberal post politics assemblage metropolis from the South? No.\u003cbr\u003eThis book shows innovative redistributive policies, regulation, and social participation recently in São Paulo, although gradually, slowly, and contentiously, and despite failures and inequalities. This great one-city-many-policies comparison departs from high quality empirically grounded research to show that collective action and public policies are back in town. In São Paulo, they have made a difference.’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePatrick Le Galès, Sciences Po CNRS research Professor, Dean Sciences Po Urban School, France\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘For anyone interested in urban governance, \u003ci\u003eThe Politics of Incremental Progressivism\u003c\/i\u003e is a must-read. Nowhere in the world have cities faced greater challenges yet been more innovative in tackling the problems of urban poverty and exclusion than in Brazil. One could not ask for a more incisive, detailed and groundbreaking set of studies on urban transformation and the politics of change.’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePatrick Heller, Lyn Cross Professor of Social Sciences, Brown University, USA\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLarge metropolises of the Global South are usually portrayed as ungovernable. \u003ci\u003eThe Politics of Incremental Progressivism\u003c\/i\u003e analyzes urban policies in São Paulo – one of the biggest and most complex Southern cities – not only challenging those views, but showing the recent occurrence of progressive change. This book develops the first detailed and systematic account of the policies and politics that construct, maintain and operate a large Southern metropolis. The chapters cover the policies of bus and subway transportation, traffic control, waste collection, development licensing, public housing and large urban projects, additionally to budgeting, electoral results and government formation and dynamics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis important book contributes to the understanding of how the city is governed, what kinds of policies its governments construct and deliver and, more importantly, under what conditions it produces redistributive change in the direction of policies that reduce its striking social and urban inequalities. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNotes on Contributors vii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eList of Abbreviations and Acronyms ix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSeries Editors’ Preface x\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments xi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 1\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEduardo Cesar Leão Marques\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I Urban Politics and Political Institutions 43\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Governments, Mayors and Policies 45\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEduardo Cesar Leão Marques and Telma Hoyler\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 The Politics of Executive-Legislative Relations 69\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEduardo Cesar Leão Marques and Telma Hoyler\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 The Politics of Municipal Budgets 92\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eUrsula Dias Peres\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II Governing Urban Services 117\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Struggling to Replace the Car Paradigm: Politics and Mobility Change 119\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCarolina Requena\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Increasingly Governing Bus Services Through Policy Instruments 136\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMarcos Lopes Campos\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Technocratic Decisions and Financial Arrangements in Subway Services 155\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDaniela Costanzo\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 The Incremental Politics of Waste Management Regulation 175\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSamuel Ralize de Godoy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III Governing Land and Housing 193\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Continuities and Changes in the Diversification of Public Housing 195\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEduardo Cesar Leão Marques and Magaly Marques Pulhez\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Developers and Politicians in the Institutionalizing of Development Regulation 217\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTelma Hoyler\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Conflicts and Incremental Change in Urban Renewal Instruments 235\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBetina Sarue and Stefano Pagin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Circulation of Institutional Formats in Urban Regeneration: From São Paulo to Porto Maravilha 257\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBetina Sarue\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion: The Political Production of Incremental Progressivism 278\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEduardo Cesar Leão Marques\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 287\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEduardo Cesar Leão Marques\u003c\/b\u003e is full professor at the Department of Political Science (DCP) and director of the Centre for Metropolitan Studies (CEM), both at the University of São Paulo. He holds a PhD in social sciences (Unicamp) and was a visiting researcher at Sciences Po Paris, University College London and University of California Berkeley. Eduardo has published extensively on urban policies, politics and inequalities, and is the author of \u003ci\u003eSão Paulo in the Twenty-First Century Spaces, Heterogeneities, Inequalities\u003c\/i\u003e (2016) and \u003ci\u003eOpportunities and deprivation in the Global South: Poverty, segregation and social networks in São Paulo\u003c\/i\u003e (2012), among others.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e‘Ungovernable neoliberal post politics assemblage metropolis from the South? No.This book shows innovative redistributive policies, regulation, and social participation recently in São Paulo, although gradually, slowly, and contentiously, and despite failures and inequalities. This great one-city-many-policies comparison departs from high quality empirically grounded research to show that collective action and public policies are back in town. In São Paulo, they have made a difference.’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePatrick Le Galès, Sciences Po CNRS research Professor, Dean Sciences Po Urban School, France\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘For anyone interested in urban governance, \u003ci\u003eThe Politics of Incremental Progressivism\u003c\/i\u003e is a must-read. Nowhere in the world have cities faced greater challenges yet been more innovative in tackling the problems of urban poverty and exclusion than in Brazil. One could not ask for a more incisive, detailed and groundbreaking set of studies on urban transformation and the politics of change.’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePatrick Heller, Lyn Cross Professor of Social Sciences, Brown University, USA\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLarge metropolises of the Global South are usually portrayed as ungovernable. \u003ci\u003eThe Politics of Incremental Progressivism\u003c\/i\u003e analyzes urban policies in São Paulo – one of the biggest and most complex Southern cities – not only challenging those views, but showing the recent occurrence of progressive change. This book develops the first detailed and systematic account of the policies and politics that construct, maintain and operate a large Southern metropolis. The chapters cover the policies of bus and subway transportation, traffic control, waste collection, development licensing, public housing and large urban projects, additionally to budgeting, electoral results and government formation and dynamics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis important book contributes to the understanding of how the city is governed, what kinds of policies its governments construct and deliver and, more importantly, under what conditions it produces redistributive change in the direction of policies that reduce its striking social and urban inequalities.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e‘Ungovernable neoliberal post politics assemblage metropolis from the South? No.\u003cbr\u003eThis book shows innovative redistributive policies, regulation, and social participation recently in São Paulo, although gradually, slowly, and contentiously, and despite failures and inequalities. This great one-city-many-policies comparison departs from high quality empirically grounded research to show that collective action and public policies are back in town. In São Paulo, they have made a difference.’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePatrick Le Galès, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eSciences Po CNRS research Professor, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eDean Sciences Po Urban School, France\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘For anyone interested in urban governance, \u003ci\u003eThe Politics of Incremental Progressivism\u003c\/i\u003e is a must-read. Nowhere in the world have cities faced greater challenges yet been more innovative in tackling the problems of urban poverty and exclusion than in Brazil. 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